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Originally Posted by stonyloam
OK I’ll try to not be too long winded here:
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I, on the other hand, make no such promises
. About 15-16 years ago, I had a very similar experience as Terry's, but mine involved a ground squirrel
(Spermophilus sp.). One spring afternoon I was getting out of work. The temp was in the upper 40s or lower 50s (~8.5-12C), and it had been raining hard for at least a week. As I was walking toward my truck, I noticed an absolutely drenched ground squirrel just quivering in the wet grass beside the parking lot. When I picked it up, it was trembling and unable to even crawl. I decided that I would do what I could for it, so I put it in the glove box of my truck for the drive home. I thought what a neat pet it might make if I could revive it, and it was certainly going to die in its hypothermic state. The drive home took about 20-25 minutes, during which time I turned the heat on pretty high to start warming it up.
Well it turned out that the vent to the heater was essentially blow-drying that ground squirrel inside my glove box. Much to my surprise when I opened the glove box to retrieve the little rodent, it was fully revived and alert. It came springing out of there like it had been launched from a catapult and ran right up my arm. It happened so fast that I only got a glimpse of it, but it looked as if it had an afro after the blow drying!
Now the problem was that I had a fully alert and fairly large rodent hiding underneath my seat, and I couldn't get it out. If truth be told, I was also a bit scared to reach in after it, so I opened the window and left a trail of cheese (yah, I know) leading out of the window. As you might guess, it didn't touch my cheese offering, but left several smelly, little, brown presents of its own before finally making its way out of my truck. From then on, wet rodents had to fend for themselves
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Rick